Guattari Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the ArtsPaul Elliott

Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers. Best known as an activist and practising psychiatrist, Guattari's work is increasingly understood as both eerily prescient and vital in the context of contemporary culture. Employing the language of visual culture and concrete examples drawn from it, this book introduces and reassesses the major concepts developed throughout Guattari's writings and his call to transform the deadening homogeneity of contemporary existence into the 'universe of creative enchantments'. Paul Elliott asserts the significance of Guattari as a revolutionary philosopher and cultural theorist, and invites the reader to transform both their understanding of his work and their lives through his ideas.

Introduction: Guattari De-leuzed

Part One: How to Critique your MilieuChapter One: The Clinical Milieu – TransversalityChapter Two: The Cultural Milieu – The Molar and the MolecularChapter Three: The Political Milieu – Micropolitics

Part Two: How to Make Yourself a War Machine Chapter Four: The Machine Chapter Five: Schizoanalysis Chapter Six: Faciality Chapter Seven: The Refrain

Description

Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers. Best known as an activist and practising psychiatrist, Guattari's work is increasingly understood as both eerily prescient and vital in the context of contemporary culture. Employing the language of visual culture and concrete examples drawn from it, this book introduces and reassesses the major concepts developed throughout Guattari's writings and his call to transform the deadening homogeneity of contemporary existence into the 'universe of creative enchantments'. Paul Elliott asserts the significance of Guattari as a revolutionary philosopher and cultural theorist, and invites the reader to transform both their understanding of his work and their lives through his ideas.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Guattari De-leuzed

Part One: How to Critique your MilieuChapter One: The Clinical Milieu – TransversalityChapter Two: The Cultural Milieu – The Molar and the MolecularChapter Three: The Political Milieu – Micropolitics

Part Two: How to Make Yourself a War Machine Chapter Four: The Machine Chapter Five: Schizoanalysis Chapter Six: Faciality Chapter Seven: The Refrain